Promyelocytic blast crisis of chronic myelogenous leukemia during imatinib treatment [1]

Acta Haematologica

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 236-237

  Gozzetti, Alessandro ^a,b   Bocchia, Monica ^a   Calabrese, Simona ^a   Pirrotta, Maria Teresa ^a   Crupi, Rosaria ^a   Raspadori, Donatella ^a   Lauria, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCR ABL PROTEIN; IMATINIB;

ADULT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BLAST CRISIS; GENES, ABL; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PIPERAZINES; PYRIMIDINES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 34249095488     PISSN: 00015792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000099548     Document Type: Letter

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